What's happening to the enterprise? What's the next generation enterprise going to look like?Ans: An Orange!I got to talk backstage at Architect Insight the other month with Iain Mortimer, Chief Architect, Bank of America Merrill Lynch about next generation enterprises and oranges!
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Jim Somers, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Antenna Software, chats with Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, about Antenna Software's mobile solutions based on the Microsoft Platform, S+S, the business value, and the cloud.
Gunther's BlogUS ISV Team Blog

According to Roger Sessions in his recent white paper "The IT Complexity Crisis", the worldwide annual cost of IT failure is over $6 trillion a year and what’s worse is it is on
the increase. The culprit, Roger believes, is complexity, which itself is directly related to function;…

Quality Attributes (Non-functional requirements) as first class citizens of a project? Too far fetched?
Len Bass, co-author of
Software Architecture in Practice and longstanding member of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), thinks he has an answer.
But how does this fit in an agile…

It’s Streaming Media East this week. Alas, I’m racing towards a book deadline, and so am skipping the show for the first time in years. I miss it; it’s long been one my favorite shows of the year, and an extremely productive place to meet with customers, partners, as well as a family reunion for us…

At the TechEd Conference, Bill Gates gave his last speech as a Microsoft full-time employee and one of the topics he discussed was Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing. (Full transcript is here.) In the speech, Gates spoke of Microsoft’s plan to have “many millions” of servers in the cloud,…

This one’s for the IT Pros – a new beta of Identity Lifecycle Manager has been released – the ILM beta helps your users better manage their multiple identities across network resources via a solution that provides identity synchronization, certificate & password management, and user provisioning…

Most of the examples here for Silverlight media have been focused on consumer content, and that's been the bulk of our broader marketing story so far. But we are Microsoft, and so enterprise is a huge portion of our bread and butter, and we want to see Silverlight be as successful inside enterprises…

LG-Nortel is a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel. Established in 2005, LG-Nortel provides leading edge telecommunications equipment and network solutions, spanning wired and wireless technologies, to service provider and enterprise customers in Korea and around the world. LG-Nortel is also…

Polycom, Inc. is the worldwide leader in unified collaborative communications (UCC) that maximize the efficiency and productivity of people and organizations by integrating the broadest array of high definition video, wired and wireless voice, and content solutions to deliver the ultimate…